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An old Negro spiritual has this line: "Everybody talkin' 'bout heaven ain't goin' there." The sad reality is that while most people have idealistic conceptions of what we'll experience in the afterlife—no hunger, no violence, no disease, no poverty, no war—very few feel motivated to work for those realities in the communities where we now live. Take, for example, the majority that currently controls the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Federal Government.

Conditions could not have been darker when angels appeared to a few shepherds on the outskirts of Bethlehem. The shepherds must've found it nearly impossible to comprehend the bizarre message: "I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people" (Luke 2:10, NIV). The shepherds—and everyone else in Judah—needed good news. Their country was occupied by cruel and oppressive Romans. King Herod was demonstrably deranged, evidenced by the fact that he decreed all bo

Stephen Chavez "There is no fear in love. . . . Perfect love drives out fear" (1 John 4:18).* Most of us take that statement for granted, thanks to Jesus' statement to Nicodemus, "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only son" (John 3:16)—one of the Bible's most often quoted verses. Yet often God's people used fear to frighten people into obedience (fear of damnation, fear of disease, fear of condemnation). Even now, those who hold the reigns of

Stephen Chavez Director of Church Relations

Stephen Chavez Last month's murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk revealed a painful truth about civil conversation in these...

Join this interfaith initiative addressing hate and violence directed against our vulnerable neighbors observed the weekend of October...

With the election of a new GC president this Tuesdays with Ted is my last episode. We wish Ted well. Plus a lesson on how to pronounce the new president's name.

SDA Kinship President Floyd Poenitz reflects on his experience at last week’s General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri.

It's sometimes hard to imagine how things change from year to year. I saw a movie the other day set in 1988. I mentioned to my wife,...

6 May 2025  | Adventist Today On April 25, the Danish Union released one of the most inclusive statements on LBGTQ+ Adventists that has...

A man sits in an oval office in Washington, D.C. With an illegible scrawl of a black Sharpie he makes decisions that affect millions of...

Our Day in History We tend to think of history as something that happened in the past. We study history to remember the contributions of...

Jesus must have shocked a lot of people when He told those assembled to hear His Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5): “Blessed are the poor in...

Toymaker Mattel recently made history with its release of a Barbie doll with Down Syndrome. "This Barbie serves as a reminder that we...